Talk about the military being "woke" in regards to racial issues as if it's a new thing should not be coming from a military historian. The military began deseg

Talk about the military being "woke" in regards to racial issues as if it's a new thing should not be coming from a military historian. The military began desegregation in 1948, almost 20 years before the passage of the Civil Rights act and desegregation of the south. For decades, military academies have practiced affirmative action, because of the problems that can happen when you have a predominantly white officer corps overseeing an enlisted cadre who are increasingly non-white (see the USS Kitty Hawk riot).